{"id":113593,"date":"2022-09-13T01:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/neighbour-of-black-pastor-arrested-for-watering-flowers-speaks-out-he-s-a-good-guy"},"modified":"2022-09-13T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T01:30:19","slug":"neighbour-of-black-pastor-arrested-for-watering-flowers-speaks-out-he-s-a-good-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/neighbour-of-black-pastor-arrested-for-watering-flowers-speaks-out-he-s-a-good-guy","title":{"rendered":"Neighbour of Black pastor arrested for watering flowers speaks out: &#8216;He&#8217;s a good guy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbour of a Black pastor who was arrested while watering his garden at his Alabama home has spoken out about the incident. Roy Malim, 66, said when left town with his wife in May, he was confident his neighbour and great friend, Pastor Michael Jennings, 56, would do an amazing job at taking care of his home in the city of Childersburg. Mr Malim and Mr Jennings became acquainted seven years ago when the pastor moved to the neighbourhood. &#8220;He [was the one] to call me and ask If I needed anything, without me even asking. That&#8217;s just the way he is, he will do anything for you,&#8221; Mr Malim told The Independent on Monday. &#8220;He is always the one who waters my wife&#8217;s flowers and checks the mail, makes sure there&#8217;s nobody messing around the house.&#8221; But a neighbour mistook Mr Jennings for an intruder and called 911 to report &#8220;suspicious&#8221; activity outside the house, leading to his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbour of a Black pastor who was arrested while watering his garden at his Alabama home has spoken out about the incident. Roy Malim, 66, said when left town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,55],"class_list":["post-113593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}